arrow key

arrow key

(hardware)

One of four keys on a keyboard marked with arrows
pointing up, down, left and right. The arrow keys are used
for such things as moving the cursor in a text document, for
moving the input focus between the fields of a form or
sometimes for scrolling a picture.

Arrow key

One of four keyboard keys that move the cursor (the pointer on screen) up, down, left and right. See cursor keys.

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